TRP on Ecstasy

[Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com]

millison at online-journalist.com writes:

"I contacted Eisner and asked him if he had interviewed Pynchon or
where he had gotten the quote.  He dodged the question and would say only
that he was absolutely certain that the quote was authentic."

Not afraid of face-to-face confrontations, Millison faces the real 
(non-virtual) face of Eisner (who presumably has basked in the presence of 
TRP), risking sneezes, flu or worse.  And what does he get?  Evasions mixed 
with certainties and authenticities.  Of course TRP has used drugs.  His 
novels are full of allusions that could only have been the result of 
experience.  Anyone who has known the thrill of the downhill slide of 
mind-expansion, the joy of viewing the void that is the un-nameable, knowing 
the full measure of pity for those who have not known the gut-wrenching 
confrontation with one's final self.  Oh, the rapture!  Just the memory dims 
my orbic sight-sensors (to call them mere "eyes" is an obscenity) with the 
tears of transcendental ecstasy.  And, God, then we know, like our skin, our 
tongues, or very genitalia, the buzzing frenzy of the Atom, the whining 
speech of the complete Cosmos.  Oh, yes.  Anyone who has experienced that, 
and then has read the works of TRP, knows that He has done drugs.  Just say 
YES!  You have but one precious existence.

But what do I know?
I am only
Eulenspiegel



    

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